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To: Scumbria who wrote (110090)	9/16/2000 7:54:31 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"His stance on Haiti was extremely unpopular, as well as Bosnia. Give the man credit where it is due." For what? Did he really get a cohiba slipped to him by Castro when he shook hands? <G> Jim

To: Scumbria who wrote (110090)	9/17/2000 4:29:09 PM
From: EricRR	Respond to of 186894

Clinton's approval rating dropped into the 30's after the 1993 act. It cost the Democrats control of the Congress. It was the one of gutsiest political acts I've seen. Bush did something similar with the tax hike that cost him the presidency. There are two ways to reduce the defecit- one is to raise taxes, and the other is to reduce spending. As Bush found out in 1990, the President really has very little control over changing the direction of appropriation. He has only his "bully pulpit," and the ability to use a veto to enforce the status quo. Clinton took very gutsy stances on several other occasions. His stance on Haiti was extremely unpopular, as well as Bosnia. "Bosnia," as meaning US policy in all of the former Yugoslavia, represents the sloppiest excuses for a "Foriegn Policy" since Vietnam. Time and time again, American credibility was wasted by State Deptartment "incrementalists." It was only though blind luck that situation never exploded into a regional war. Milosovic could have been stopped long ago, by a credible threat of American force. One in fact was made by Bush senior in Xmas of 1992, regarding Kosovo. It lasted for almost six years. A good president would have refreshed a dictators memory, before he reverted to any undesirable habits. For some reason, Democrats always seem to put together lousy foreign policy teams. (Carter's would have been OK, except that it included him) Hati basically was handled well. You should ask why Rwanda was not handled at all.